Science & Society

Imagine a scenario where a group of people get together to frame the debate about science and even set out to conspiratorially place papers in highly-respected journals, selecting the ideal names to…

What do you presume about me? auremar/Shutterstock By James Williams, University of Sussex In 1982 I was toying with the idea of a career in teaching. That year a controversial film, Made in Britain…

Muslim communities are not be as victimized by violent crime nor are they as dissatisfied with the police as most sociology papers claim. An examination of statistics in the Crime Survey of England…

Australia recently had an election where they asked for a dramatic departure from previous fiscal policies.  The reasons were simple, in hindsight. Everyone wanted more money from an…

Diversity is listed at the bottom of priorities for human resources professionals in large firms yet many mangers still feel threatened by diversity policies.shutterstock By Jennifer Whelan,…

What if whether you got a job was determined by which web browser you used? Shutterstock By Mark Burdon, The University of Queensland and Paul Harpur, The University of Queensland Staff recruitment…

It's pretty common in culture, from Turkey to Tennessee, for a public that otherwise does not condone rape to joke about it when it comes to male criminals. And the more heinous the crime, not only…

Frank Priestley, President of the Idaho Farm Bureau, notes that some consumers will benefit from GMO labeling laws - if those consumers are organic farmers and have an audience so educated by…

After the mid-term elections in the United States, a lot of Democratic staffers are looking for new jobs. A new study finds that it's better to focus on skills in that new resume, and put the recent…

Female American athletes get less coverage in the media due to gender bias and instead what attention they get focuses more on attire, or how attractive, sexy or ladylike they are, write Emily Kaskan…